She lives in a shack in an informal settlement south of the city and has had to put on hold her dream of building a house for her and her 7-year-old daughter.Rage Against The Machine blew their load far too damn early. Imploding just before Bush the Second arrived, their core value point – modernizing the incendiary potential of the protest song – halted before 9/11 took the band’s plight from an urgent slap across a comatose face to a potential smartbomb of desperate demand for truth and justice. What we have in their place are smaller fires of discontent and informed dissent, such as the cerebrally ferocious lyricism of UK spitfire queen Kate Tempest – and her new single just set fire to every unspoken rug-swept bit of dirty laundry pop culture has conveniently shielded itself from in the daily news cycle. With the Dan-Carey-produced “Europe Is Lost,” Tempest reminds us that protest songs can – and should – be more than kumbayas about peace and ending war. The track is a disgusted diagnosis of Fuckall Culture through an urgent and laser-focused but weary delivery, spun between the matter-of-fact butter cadence of Brother Ali and Scroobius Pip. Initially praising the apparent state of prosperity, she’s soon lamenting the “roots dug up from the ground” and feeling, like many of us do, that we’ve gotta do something to change the formula. To shake the complacency.īut she sees the odds, and she knows the game is rigged. “Feeling the onset of riot, but riots are tiny though, Systems are huge / The traffic keeps moving, proving there’s nothing to do.” And where do we go from there? While we incarcerate millions for a harmless plant with voluminous evidence of medical benefits, a federally enabled pharmaceutical obsession has raped our culture with dicks of Xanax and Oxy poppers, wreaking absolute havoc among communities suckered into a haze of cognitive dissonance with casualties in the millions. “ Your kids are doped up on medical sedatives, but don’t worry bout that. Worry bout terrorists.”īecause ISIS is what’s going to destroy us, not our obsession with indulgence, numb and convenience,our addiction to eliminating natural order for bigger, better, right fucking now. No one likes a party pooping spoil sport.” “ The water levels rising! The water levels rising! The animals, the polarbears, the elephants are dying! Stop crying.
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